A collection of short stories that focus on themes ranging from Los
Angeles and bar culture to alcoholism, gambling, sex and violence.
Surfacing from the literary underground, Bukowski's wild and immortal
stories have become cult favourites. This collection of anecdotal short
stories demonstrates Bukowski's compelling semi-autobiographical style...

For the first time ever - a comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth-century's most innovative creative artists: the incomparable, irreplaceable Jim Henson. He was a gentle dreamer whose genial bearded visage was recognized around the world, but most people got to know him only through the iconic characters he created: Kermit the Frog, Bert...

We are the safest humans who ever lived - the statistics prove it. And yet the media tells a different story with its warnings and scare stories. How is it possible that anxiety has become the stuff of daily life? In this ground-breaking, compulsively readable book, Dan Gardner shows how our flawed strategies for perceiving risk influence our...

Ask most women whether they have the right to equality at work and the answer will be a resounding yes, but ask the same women whether they'd feel confident asking for a raise, a promotion, or equal pay, and some reticence creeps in. The statistics, although an improvement on previous decades, are certainly not in women's favour - of 197 heads of...

Have you always got what you wanted from your deals? Have you ever felt under too much pressure when negotiating or wished you had more skills to agree your desired terms? Negotiation is fundamental to our lives; whether it's getting your kids to eat their greens, making your case for a pay rise, or trying to secure a multi-million pound deal for...

In the late 1960s Andy Warhol, one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, set out to turn an ordinary book into a piece of pop art. He said that he wanted to create a 'bad' novel 'because doing something the wrong way always opens doors'. The result was this astonishing account of the famously influential group of artists,...